#World war ii online tanks Offline#
#World war ii online tanks windows#

If you want to splurge, you can buy premium ammunition that will make you more effective in battle for a few cents a shell (which can add up quickly). Paying around $12 a month lets you advance at the fastest and most efficient rate. Spending nothing gives you the most basic experience. The next thing you know, three hours have passed, and you may not have spent a dime. You can be in constant action with close to no downtime. If your tank is blown up before the end of the match, you can instantly leave that battle and start a new one after selecting another vehicle from your garage. Most battles seem to last barely half that time. You have 15 minutes to kill them all or capture their base.

#World war ii online tanks Offline#

(Right now I’m trying to unlock the German Tiger II and E50 tanks, as well as the American T25 AT tank destroyer.) You are not locked into one country and can explore multiple technology trees at once.įrom the beginning, every battle happens online against human opponents - there is no offline mode - pitting you and 14 of your newest friends against 15 randomly selected players on the other team. You start off in your chosen nation’s weakest tin can and work your way up to behemoths of steel.

The main tank lines are American, German and Soviet. The company,, is originally from Minsk, Belarus, though it now also has operations in London. Perhaps it should come as no surprise that a game about tanks and artillery comes from a company in the former Soviet Union, which owed its very survival of Nazi Germany’s onslaught to the powerful use of armor. And if you’re tiring of elves, demons and aliens, you may find the experience of watching your enemies scatter or be blown to shards by the rumbling might of your Tiger tank just a bit more visceral. If you’re a World War II buff, the game is a must.

#World war ii online tanks windows#

To put it in blunt, even howitzerian, terms: if you have any interest in military tactics and a speedy computer (the game runs only on fairly powerful Windows PCs), you should at least give it a try. Even when I should have been playing some other game, I was probably playing World of Tanks, a concussively enjoyable, shrewdly designed armored-combat game.Īfter more than 1,500 online battles, I now find myself daydreaming about obscure military concepts with vaguely suggestive names like gun depression, defilade and enfilade. When I should have been doing something responsible, like scrubbing the tub, I was probably barreling around a European town called Himmelsdorf in an “Easy Eight” Sherman. When I could have been doing something healthy recently, like going to the gym, I was probably sniping with a Panzer IV from the escarpments of a desert called El Halluf.